You know her, you love her. Peggy’s blog posts, both those she writes for us and those we steal directly from her blog, are among our most-viewed articles – so of course you’re thrilled to know that Peggy’s novel, Stormrider, is now available in paperback as well as e-book format.
Here’s how Peggy puts this news:
Are you a Spider-Man lover? A genuine comics freak?
If so, then you already know Steve Ditko, the artist who started Spidey, um, swinging in the ’60s (based on a Jack Kirby design, natch). If not, you should know Ditko anyway because he’s weird shy secretive very, very retro, bee-zar awesome.
So Rollo appears. Carrying a grande-sized coffee. Sits down. Orders another coffee. I’m transfixed. He looks different than I pictured (though admittedly, his pix are kinda obscured online.) Initial observations:
1) He’s rocking the burnt-out boho look: Paunchy. Hunched over a bit (from all those hours playing WoW, I’m thinking?) Longish, silver-tinged dreads with a pronounced bald spot. Filmy, aberrant, slightly chipped grayish teeth. A black motorcycle jacket that’s seen better days. Overall? Kinda got that Catch a Predator meets Crown Heights stylee.
…According to Brenden Gallagher of Complex.Com:
We posted the selections above because, ahem, we disagree with almost all of them. But of course we don’t want to ram our choices down your throats.
If you want to see our list from January, though (which also includes TV series choices because we believe in 1 level playing field), it’s HERE.
We admit it. We write for free all the time, but mostly just because we can’t get many people to pay us. Fortunately, the interweb sometimes lights up with articles like this, which assuage our guilt. (Well, a bit of it anyway.)
I used to be an editor with a tiny budget who was constantly apologizing for our rates. Now I’m a freelancer who pays my rent exclusively through writing. And sometimes, I allow my work to be published for nothing, or next-to-nothing. Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the deterioration of journalism!